Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of tough love is based on the conviction that no effective recovery can be initiated until a man admits that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Like faith and hope, trust cannot be self-generated. I cannot simply will myself to trust. What outrageous irony: the one thing that… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“The difference between faith as “belief in something that may or may not exist” and faith as “trusting in God” is enormous.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.- — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“God's love is based on nothing, and the fact that it is based on nothing makes us secure. Were it based on… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Because salvation is by grace through faith, I believe that among the countless number of people standing in front of the throne… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“It is not objective proof of God’s existence that we want but the experience of God’s presence. That is the miracle we are really… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
